Paris and São Paulo-based Carbondale has completed Piselli, a high-end restaurant in the central plaza of São Paulo’s Iguatemi Faria Lima building.
Also recently renovated by Carbondale, the four-story, approximately 32,300-square-foot plaza features travertine stone, a structurally avant-garde skylight, and a pixelized central garden.
Piselli, surrounded by a ring of foliage, was conceived as an outdoor-style experience with a covered dining terrace that extends into the garden, as well as a discreet garden path that leads to the entrance.
With a floating box ceiling nearly 20 feet high, the open restaurant was completed without walls and instead features floor-to-ceiling strands of polished, gold-plated brass bars that vertically encompass its perimeter and strategically play off of the area’s natural light. The restaurant’s interior is spatially delimited by raised cumaru wood parquet flooring, while the ceiling is made from polished cedar wood paneling. Filled with brass mesh, floating edge-lit wood frames that partition the large volume to create intimacy, mark the central bar area, and provide additional lighting.
The restaurant is marked by a variety of seating areas featuring solid wood and leather furnishings, including a nearly 23-foot-long beige leather sofa that seems to nestle into the garden.
